TOP STORY: JIM BAKKER: Televangelist takes to the pulpit in wake of conviction

c. 1996 Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS (RNS)-Former televangelist Jim Bakker, bathed in a standing ovation from a nearly full church Sunday (Feb. 25), preached a new gospel of humility he said he learned in prison. But Bakker, convicted in 1989 for bilking 116,000 followers out of nearly $158 million, did not acknowledge whether a […]